I have an extraordinary update for you in the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni legal battle. This is the case in which Blake Lively accuses her co-star from the movie It Ends With Us, Justin Baldoni, of sexual harassment and disparagement. Baldoni cross claimed, saying Lively is a nasty bully who is unfairly blaming and disparaging him for the negative press she generated with her disastrous promo tour around the release of their movie in August 2024.
News broke in July that Lively had begun sending subpoenas to podcasters and others who had said or written negative things about her. From Candace Owens and Perez Hilton to people you’ve likely never heard of, like Zack Peters, she targeted more than a dozen journalists and online creators, igniting a free speech firestorm.
Megyn Subpoenaed
We can now reveal that we were among those Blake Lively targeted. Yes, she actually tried to get the confidential and proprietary materials my team and I used for any and all stories about her.
Because Blake Lively was unable to fathom that yours truly had developed a genuine revulsion toward her on my own, she posited that I must have been ensnared in Baldoni’s alleged ongoing “smear campaign” against her; that his attorney – who happens also to be my own from well before his representation of Baldoni – must be controlling our coverage.
In addition, she suggested that I was getting paid by Baldoni or Freedman for my anti-Blake coverage, demanding to see all documents reflecting this agreement or payment structure. This is how narcissistic this woman is. She actually thinks I needed to get paid by Baldoni’s team to say negative things about her.
Newsflash, Blake: I came to those conclusions totally organically. Don’t give your power away, sweetheart. It was you, all you, who made me unable to stand you. No man had anything to do with it.
We fought her subpoena and won. She backed down and has now missed the deadline to pursue her harassment of me and my team any further. Sorry, sweetheart, you might want to try harder next time.
But in any event, we gave her absolutely nothing. Not one document, not one record, not one communication. In no world would I ever, ever allow my team’s – or my – communications with each other or with our sources to be turned over to a third party and certainly not to this nitwit. It’s called the First Amendment. Freedom of the press. She has zero right to nose around in how I gather news or in how my team and I prepare for any show we do.
Pro-tip: We’re extremely fair, thorough, factual, and unsparing of any public figure and, frankly, of ourselves when it comes to our own high standards. But access to our actual communications? It’s a no. You cannot have them. I am a member of the press and you are a sad, pathetic, untalented, narcissistic bully. I will never back down to the likes of Blake Lively. Never. And her fight to harass me and my team ended in her getting nothing.
Going After the Little Guy
However, there are still many content creators whom we believe are being actively bullied by Blake Lively to this day. We were in the fortunate position of being able to hire a lawyer and send him into court to tell Lively to pound sand. Most of the people she is harassing don’t have those resources, and she knows it. She is targeting them because she knows she can. She is richer and better connected with high-powered lawyers who have nothing but time and billable hours on their hands, thanks to Ryan Reynolds’ booze and acting fortunes.
These two Hollywood mega-millionaires think nothing of harassing powerless people on social media who have the temerity to write or speak negatively about Queen Blake. Remember that the next time you see Ryan Reynolds trying to pawn himself off as the nice guy. He is a bully too.
While we at The Megyn Kelly Show are not worried about Blake Lively’s attempt to harass us, we are concerned about this ugly bully’s efforts to embarrass other online creators with fewer resources and sincerely hope the judge in this case will send a message to Lively and her legal team that they have overreached.
It is ironic, of course, that in an effort to disprove that she is an unlikeable bully brat who didn’t deserve any of the negative press she received, Blake Lively acts like an unlikeable bully brat who cannot believe any of that negative press could be genuine.
So, I will just say this: I came to this case entirely open-minded. I had nothing against Blake Lively. It wasn’t until I saw how many allegations she clearly made up and reached the independent conclusion that she was glomming onto the #MeToo movement to try to save her reputation that I finally realized she is a terrible person. Then, I started looking at the clips that had generated such negative coverage of her last summer and saw I was actually quite late to the “Blake is terrible” party.
Bad Behavior
It was clips like the one where she bullied a reporter with no power after the journalist had the nerve to compliment Blake’s very and obviously pregnant state. She has also been accused of bullying people like Barbara Suzman, an assistant director who worked with Lively on the set of the movie A Simple Favor.
Suzman posted online that Lively “was cruel to many” on that set, adding “I cried my way home many nights because: you try so hard to please someone who is never pleased and puts you down constantly”.” She said Lively’s treatment of her was the “reason I quit being an A.D.” And while she did not specifically name Lively in her posts, she later linked to a Perez Hilton YouTube post in which he surmised Barbara was talking about Blake Lively.
An intern who goes by the name of Ewood on the show that made Lively a star, Gossip Girl, similarly came out publicly to say that there, too, Lively was a bully to staff and nasty to her fans. He noted that unlike Leighton Meister, who would pose for photographs with adoring fans who came by the set, Lively never would. Here’s how he put it: “I noticed a stark contrast between the lead actresses. Blake often displayed mean, bullying behavior disguised as jokes – very passive-aggressive. On the other hand, Leighton was consistently lovely to everyone, even fans.” He subsequently gave a podcast interview doubling down on those allegations.
Blake Lively is a narcissistic, liar, bully, brat. And now we know she harassed Justin Baldoni too. She threatened him that her “dragons” Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Swift were there to be her enforcers, a claim that appears to have cost her her relationship with Taylor who now reportedly wants nothing to do with her.
She tried to wrest control of the movie It Ends With Us from Justin – from the editing to the wardrobe to the writing of the script and so on. And when he failed to comply completely and totally, she ginned up clearly fake allegations against him that he harassed her and turned the cast against him.
She claimed his best friend was parachuted in to play the part of the OBGYN when her character gave birth just so he could get a look at her lady parts, which she claimed were uncovered. That man, a Shakespearean actor, has since gone on the record saying he is an acclaimed actor with many credits and that Lively was fully covered in biker shorts for the scene in question.
She claimed Justin and his co-producer would stop by her trailer unexpectedly and watch her breastfeed her baby against her wishes. Then, Baldoni produced a text message of hers inviting them over while she was breastfeeding – something she clearly had no problem with.
The Real Blake
We could go on, but you know the truth. This is yet another entitled, nasty, elitist Hollywood snob who thinks she is untouchable to the point where – not unlike Meghan and Harry, who have made a career out of suing members of the press who write disparaging things about them – she believes that anyone who doesn’t worship her must be on the payroll of her enemies.
Well, I’m not, Blake. No one has to pay me one dime to say negative things about you. I do that because I believe them and because you really are terrible.
You can check out Megyn’s full analysis by tuning in to episode 1,137 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.